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ORVILLE M. KNOX, OF ONEIDA, NEIV YORK.

RAILWAY CROSS-Tl E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 590,456, dated September 21, 1897.

Application filed January 18, 1897. Serial N0- 619,606- (N0 mode To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ORVILLE M. KNOX, of Oneida, in the county of Madison, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Railway Cross-Ties, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the class of metallic railway cross-ties which have the body or main portion inverted-T-shaped in cross-section and the top plate thereof terminated with downward deflections to form cross-walls which serve to prevent the cross-tie from shifting endwise on the road-bed, a species of which ties is shown in my United States Letters Patent No. 473,954, dated May 3, 1892.

The object of my presentinvention is to provide a railway cross-tie of the aforesaid class which shall be adapted to be formed mainly of a rolled steel bar in a simple and inexpensive manner and shall be provided with the desired end stays or cross-walls formed and attached in a simple manper and adapted to be secured to different portions of the length of said bar and serve the additional function of stiffening the ties longitudinally; and to that end the invention consists in the improved construction and combination of the component parts of the tie, as hereinafter de scribed, and set forth in the claims.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of my improved cross-tie with the railway-rails mounted thereon. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of the tie. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of said tie with the rails attached thereto. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the under side of the body portion of the cross-tie. Fig. 5 is a detached perspective view of one of the stay-plates of the tie, and Fig. 6 is an end view of the tie.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

(6 represents the body or main portion of the cross-tie, which portion is formed of a bar of rolled steel of T shape in cross-section from end to end and cut off squarely at its ends and thus caused to present T-shaped end faces, as shown in Fig. 6 of the drawings.

b 1) denote the stay-plates, which are formed separate from the bar a and may be either of steel or cast-iron. These plates are L-shaped in cross-section and disposed at the ends of said bar and vertically at opposite sides of the vertical web a thereof. Each of these plates is either bolted or riveted with one of its vertical walls to the side of the web a and extends part way the length thereof, while the other wall of said plate projects laterally and preferably at right angles from the said web and abuts against the under side of the horizontal portion of the bar a.

It will be observed that the aforesaid component parts of the cross-tie are all cheaply constructed and readily united without requiring heating or welding the same.

What I claim asmy invention is 1. A metallic railway cross-tie composed of a rolled steel or iron bar of inverted-T shape in cross-section, and separate stay-plates secured to the under side of said bar at opposite sides of the vertical web thereof and extending across the ends and part way the length of the bar as set forth.

2. The improved metallic railway cross-tie consisting of a rolled steel bar of inverted-T shape in cross-section from end to end thereof, and separate L-shaped stay-plates disposed at the end of said bars and vertically at opposite sides of the vertical web thereof, each of said stay-plates being fastened with one of its walls to the side of the said web and extending with its other wall laterally from the web and abutting against the under side of the horizontal portion of the bar as set forth and shown.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 7th day of January, 1897.

H. B. SMITH. 

